Bill Text: NY S02655 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates a process whereby the division of criminal justice services is to verify criminal record information where certain arrest warrant information contains contradictory information; requires the division of criminal justice services to contact various law enforcement entities and the courts in order to clarify the contradictions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-11 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S02655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S02655-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2655--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 26, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. VOLKER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, SCHNEIDERMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to notice by the division of criminal justice services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 530.70 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. WHEN A CRIMINAL RECORD MAINTAINED BY THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL 4 JUSTICE SERVICES PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED 5 THIRTY-SEVEN OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW CONTAINS A WARRANT ON A CASE INITIATED 6 AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, THAT HAS NOT BEEN RECALLED AND 7 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES SUBSEQUENTLY RECEIVES A REPORT 8 OF A NEW COURT PROCEEDING ON THE CASE THAT CONTAINS THE WARRANT OR A 9 REPORT ON A NEW ARREST BUT NO REPORT THAT THE WARRANT HAS BEEN RECALLED, 10 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES SHALL SEND A NOTIFICATION TO 11 THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF THE LOCAL CRIMINAL COURT WHERE THE ARREST IS 12 BEING PROSECUTED, THE OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION, AND THE ARRESTING 13 AGENCY WHICH FORWARDED THE FINGERPRINTS OF THE PERSON TO THE DIVISION OF 14 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES. SUCH NOTICE SHALL STATE THAT IF THE DIVISION 15 OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES DOES NOT RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM ANY OF 16 THESE AGENCIES THAT THE WARRANT IS STILL ACTIVE, THE DIVISION OF CRIMI- 17 NAL JUSTICE SERVICES SHALL INDICATE ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S CRIMINAL RECORD 18 THAT THE WARRANT HAS BEEN RECALLED. IF ONE OF THESE AGENCIES NOTIFIES 19 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES THAT THE WARRANT HAS BEEN 20 RECALLED, THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES SHALL ADD THIS 21 INFORMATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S CRIMINAL RECORD. IF, AFTER SIXTY DAYS, 22 THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES RECEIVES NO RESPONSES FROM EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04440-02-0 S. 2655--A 2 1 ANY OF THE AGENCIES IT HAS CONTACTED OR IF THE AGENCIES INDICATE THAT 2 THEY CANNOT FIND ANY RECORD OF THE WARRANT, THE WARRANT SHALL BE CONSID- 3 ERED RECALLED AND RECORDED AS SUCH ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S CRIMINAL RECORD 4 WITH BOTH THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES AND WITH THE OFFICE 5 OF COURT ADMINISTRATION. THE DIVISION SHALL SEND NOTICE THAT THE WARRANT 6 IS CONSIDERED RECALLED TO THE ARRESTING AGENCY WHICH FORWARDED THE FING- 7 ERPRINTS TO THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES. FOR CASES INITI- 8 ATED PRIOR TO JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE 9 TRANSMITTED BY THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES UPON REQUEST OF 10 THE PERSON ACCUSED OR SUCH PERSON'S DESIGNATED AGENT. 11 S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.